Angiospermae - Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Parent taxon: Menispermaceae according to A. P. de Candolle 1817
Sister taxa: Bowerbankella, Calkinsia, Canticocculus, Carronia, Cebatha, Chandlera, Cissampelos, Cocculeae, Cocculinae, Cocculites, Cocculophyllum, Cocculus, Diploclisia, Entoneuron, Eohypserpa, Fibraureae, Frintonia, Goweri, Hyalosepalum, Hyperbaena, Hypserpa, Martinmuellera, Menispermaphyllum, Menispermicarpum, Menispermites, Menispermoxylon, Menispina, Microtinomiscium, Odontocaryoidea, Palaeococculus, Palaeosinomenium, Parabaena, Pericampylus, Rhytidocaryon, Stephania, Syntrisepalum, Tinomiscoidea, Tinospora, Tinosporeae, Wardenia, Wardensheppeya, Wilkinsoniphyllum
Subtaxa: Karinschmidtia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Messel (Eocene of Germany)